This may not work for you, but I'll tell you what I wish I had done -- started learning cello when I entered high school. As a eupher, I had "orchestra envy" really bad, and just prior to my senior year our director suggested that I take up contrabass. I did, and within three months I was good enough to stand 3rd (actually tied for 2nd, the director told me, but he gave Pam 2nd because she had been at it longer, and that was fine with me, because I just wanted to play). But when I was taking the string methods class in college, I played the cello, and I thought that I had really missed an opportunity.
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David Bjornstad
1923 Conn New Wonder 86I, Bach 6 1/2 AL
2018 Wessex EP100 Dolce, Denis Wick 4ABL
2013 Jinbao JBEP-1111L, Denis Wick 4AM
2015 Jinbao JBBR-1240, Denis Wick clone mouthpiece of unknown designation
Cullman (AL) Community Band (Euph Section Leader)
Brass Band of Huntsville (2nd Bari)